Glenn Close, who will reprise her Tony-winning role of Norma Desmond in the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Don Black-Christopher Hampton musical Sunset Boulevard April 1-May 7 at the London Coliseum, may also preserve her performance on screen.

Glenn Close
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Co-librettist/co-lyricist Hampton is working on a film version of the musical, which he hopes will also star Close, who is returning to the stage musical more than two decades after her original run.

Hampton told London's Standard, "In fact we are looking down the line to make a movie of it later. When we first did Sunset Boulevard it was somehow still too close to the original. Now you have to ask yourself and find a director who would ask 'What is there about this story that was made so perfectly in 1950 that justified me doing it again?'"

About Close starring in a film adaptation, Hampton said, "It is not my decision but as far as I’m concerned that is what I'm thinking. We've just had a series of talks with Paramount so everything is in place and hopefully we can get it done while Glenn is in London."

Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard is based on Billy Wilder's 1950 movie of the same name, which featured Gloria Swanson as the reclusive Norma Desmond who falls in love with an unlucky writer — Joe Gillis — who happens upon her home by accident. William Holden played Gillis in the film; Swanson, Holden and Wilder all received Academy Award nominations for their work.